Broadside – Daniel Smith

This example of a broadside reminds me of the dichotomy between text and images like the author describes. But to take it further, I think it would be appropriate to mention Rene Magritte’s “treachery of images” and Joseph Kosuth’s “3 chairs in one.” In these classic pieces of art, the viewer is prompted to challenge their beliefs and question everything they see. For instance, in Rene Magritte’s painting, he depicts a representation of a pipe while having French text underneath it that translates to mean “this is not a pipe.” What Magritte is trying to say here is that what your seeing is not a pipe. It is a painting of a representation of a pipe. Going along with that, Joseph Kosuth’s sets out to exhaust everything that a chair is. He constructs and installation in which he includes the dictionary definition of a chair, a photograph of a chair as well as an actual physical chair. How this all relates to broadsides, mine in particular, is that text and image can be one in the same. My broadside depicts a representation of a classic record player. The image of the record player is formed from the letters and words describing what a record player is and does. Doing so all with a single hue color scheme.

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